"Dennis Potter adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about how the rich languoring on the Riviera in the 1920s are slowly drawn into the coming depression is once again filmed with Peter Strauss, Mary Steenburgen, and John Heard in the leads."
Peter Strauss
as Dick Diver
Mary Steenburgen
as Nicole Warren Diver
Sean Young
as Rosemary Hoyt
John Heard
as Abe North
Ed Asner
as Devereux Warren
Joanna David
as Hannah
Piper Laurie
as Elsie Speers
Timothy West
as Mr. Morris
John Sessions
as Young Scot
William Hope
as American in Bar
Jerome Willis
as T.F. Golding
Philippe Mareuil
as The hotel manager
Robert Knights
Director
Malcolm Cowley
Writer
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novel
Dennis Potter
Richard Rodney Bennett
Original Music Composer
Betty Willingale
Producer
Jonathan Powell
Executive Producer
Ken Westbury
Director of Photography
Tariq Anwar
Editor
Derek Dodd
Production Design
Barbara Kidd
Costume Design